Tuesday, 19 January 2016

December 2015 saw four original films directed by composer Flint Juventino Beppe available worldwide from The FJB Fingerprint

Flint Juventino Beppe
(formerly known as Fred Jonny Berg) http://fjbfingerprint.comstarted creating music in his childhood with
songs, instrumental works, electronic music and orchestral works. Having no
political preferences, Beppe has nevertheless always felt powerful liberalistic
undertones valuing an individual freedom that permeates all his art, dreaming
of a world without religions and violating politics.

To date, Beppe's catalogue of compositions numbers around
200 works, many of which are commissions, and include works for piano, flute,
clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, string orchestra and orchestral
works, including flute concertos, piano concertos and symphonic poems. Beppe
has also written ballet music, electro acoustic works, film soundtracks and
songs.

Beppe's works have been performed around the world including
the USA (The Kennedy Center), Russia, England (St. John's, Smith Square),
Finland and Japan. He has collaborated with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the
National Symphony Orchestra, Emily Beynon, Mark van de Wiel, Sir James Galway,
Ralph Rousseau, Leonard Slatkin and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Beppe is also a scriptwriter, director and producer for an
on-going art film production labelled Symbiophonies™. Flint Juventino Beppe
works are published by The FJB Fingerprint™.

Exhaling music is
an award-winning documentary featuring Flint Juventino Beppe who has captured
the heart and minds of the international music scene. This 56 minute
documentary made in 2009, in Norwegian and English with English subtitles, was
produced by News on Request AS and
directed by Trond Eliassen. It features such internationally renowned artists
as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emily Beynon and James Galway and charts Beppe’s career
from the first piano solos that he sent to Ashkenazy through to the rehearsals
with the great conductor.

There are many insights into the composer and his connection
with nature. ‘I never compose music’, Beppe says, ‘the tones just float around
inside my head. When they get too loud, I have to breathe them out.’ This
insightful, often compelling film tells of Beppe’s traumatic loss of Christian
faith at the age of seventeen and his fight to express himself, which he
achieved through music. His breakthrough came with Flute Mystery, the subject of the recording sessions featured on
this film. Emily Beynon talks of her enjoyment working with the composer and
the Chairman of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Alistair McKay, speaks of Beppe’s
unique voice. Ashkenazy talks of the development
of Beppe’s music from the early works that he received from the composer and of
the honesty of his music.

This documentary also reveals some of the creative process
between Ashkenazy and Beppe during recording sessions and the stresses of
recording, particularly when Ashkenazy falls sick and the composer, who has
never conducted an orchestra before, successfully takes over.

Above all it is Flint Juventino Beppe’s innate modesty and
sheer natural musicianship that shines through.

Flint Juventino Beppe is both composer and director of Montagna con Forza (duration 56
minutes)an art filmthat has no commentary, just the
wonderful music of Beppe and stunning images of the Norwegian landscape. In
this film we follow a wooden boat’s venture across a lake and, in the
composer’s words ‘we will be exposed to the vast array of temperate sensations,
sensitive harmonies and visions – freed from the conventions of time…also the
brutality and mercilessness of life are the central elements, in combination
with eleven closely connected parts and originally written music…this
production is respectfully dedicated to the fragile world we all live in.’

The film takes us soaring over mountains and snow covered
peaks, the little wooden boat is shown drifting alone. There are wonderful
colours and images, swirling mists, close ups of natural world, snowscapes, colourful
rock features and some exquisite underwater photography revealing the real
beauty of nature and always returning to the little boat, all with Beppe’s
unique and atmospheric music.

The ideas behind Vicino
alla Montagna (duration 54 minutes)aredescribed by Beppe with the following
words ‘Nature is constantly present…music perpetually sounds from beyond the
mountains…humankind arises from the earth…while Music is directing the cycle of
life Nature is the impartial arena. What happens when Humankind cannot relate
to this unified energy of Nature and Music.’

Again with no commentary this art film brings more
beautifully filmed and directed scenes from nature. Female forms appear out of
the natural landscape as humankind arises from the earth. Beppe uses some black
and white images to add effect. There
are some quite stunning visual images particularly of a snow swept landscape
with a large moon above and of ice flows. This film is much about the human
relationship with nature with, towards the end, the female figures walking into
the water to be submerged before the conclusion arrives with a glorious sunset
and with the equally glorious music of Flint Juventino Beppe. Please note that
although the film contains nudity for artistic purposes, the Norwegian Media
Authority has awarded it a general certificate, which means that it is suitable
for all ages.

Captured in a Gaze is
a short film directed by Flint Juventino Beppe of around nine minutes duration from
ideas by the composer which shows a gathering of young people talking and going
about their usual activities. One of the girls looks at a photograph on the
wall of an old man. She starts drawing and finds herself caught between dream
and reality as she starts to communicate with a portrait on the wall. This
brings some most inventive and unusual animations against an original and quite
captivating Flint Juventino Beppe electronic soundtrack.

There is much more to Montagna con Forza and Vicino alla
Montagna than the beautiful images that are captured, immensely enjoyable
though they are. There is a narrative running through these films that holds
the attention. In the director and composer’s own words ‘This is not music set
to film. This is film set to music.’

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